The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCPD over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the England region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank 786 773 783
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +10
Permanent jobs citing MCPD 58 97 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.058% 0.085% 0.056%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.210% 0.310% 0.218%
Number of salaries quoted 52 93 64
Average salary £35,425 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.21% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £41,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,425 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.21% +7.69%
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27621 31263 29865
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.50% 27.49% 25.91%
Number of salaries quoted 22526 26789 25079
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCPD
UK

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MCPD across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England MCPD Jobs Demand Trend

MCPD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCPD across the England region.

England MCPD Salary Trend

MCPD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCPD across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England MCPD Salary Histogram

MCPD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCPD within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +66 34 £35,000 +7.69%
East Midlands - 12 £36,463 -
North West -1 4 £27,500 -26.66%
West Midlands -18 3 £48,750 +65.25%
South East -20 3 £35,000 +25.00%
MCPD
UK

MCPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing MCPD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MCPD.

1 100 (86.96%) .NET
2 95 (82.61%) MCTS
3 91 (79.13%) SQL Server
4 88 (76.52%) C#
5 80 (69.57%) ASP.NET
6 79 (68.70%) SQL
7 77 (66.96%) JavaScript
8 70 (60.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 65 (56.52%) Microsoft
10 61 (53.04%) OO
11 57 (49.57%) XML
12 55 (47.83%) XSLT
13 50 (43.48%) .NET Framework
13 50 (43.48%) Degree
14 45 (39.13%) Windows
15 44 (38.26%) VB.NET
15 44 (38.26%) SQL Server 2008
16 42 (36.52%) WCF
17 41 (35.65%) SQL Server 2005
18 39 (33.91%) OOA/OOD
18 39 (33.91%) CRM
19 38 (33.04%) MVC
19 38 (33.04%) Finance
19 38 (33.04%) Computer Science
19 38 (33.04%) jQuery
20 37 (32.17%) Ajax
20 37 (32.17%) CMS
21 36 (31.30%) Web Services
22 34 (29.57%) MCP
22 34 (29.57%) WPF

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing MCPD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MCPD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 100 (86.96%) .NET
2 80 (69.57%) ASP.NET
3 57 (49.57%) XML
4 55 (47.83%) XSLT
5 50 (43.48%) .NET Framework
6 42 (36.52%) WCF
7 38 (33.04%) jQuery
8 37 (32.17%) Ajax
9 36 (31.30%) Web Services
10 34 (29.57%) WPF
11 30 (26.09%) LINQ to SQL
12 23 (20.00%) LINQ
13 21 (18.26%) CSS
14 20 (17.39%) HTML
15 16 (13.91%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 16 (13.91%) ASP.NET MVC
16 10 (8.696%) WinForms
16 10 (8.696%) ASP
17 7 (6.087%) WF
18 6 (5.217%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 37 (32.17%) CMS
2 26 (22.61%) SharePoint
3 22 (19.13%) IIS
4 15 (13.04%) BizTalk Server
5 11 (9.565%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (5.217%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (5.217%) MS Exchange
7 5 (4.348%) Umbraco
8 4 (3.478%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (3.478%) MSMQ
8 4 (3.478%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (2.609%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (2.609%) Windows Azure
10 2 (1.739%) Immediacy CMS
10 2 (1.739%) Commerce Server
10 2 (1.739%) Commerce Server 2007
10 2 (1.739%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 26 (22.61%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.348%) InfoPath
3 3 (2.609%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.609%) InDesign
3 3 (2.609%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.609%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.826%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.739%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.217%) LAN
1 6 (5.217%) WAN
1 6 (5.217%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.478%) VPN
2 4 (3.478%) DNS
2 4 (3.478%) DHCP
3 2 (1.739%) SAN
3 2 (1.739%) Internet
3 2 (1.739%) Firewall
3 2 (1.739%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.870%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (79.13%) SQL Server
2 44 (38.26%) SQL Server 2008
3 41 (35.65%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.609%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.609%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (2.609%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (2.609%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (2.609%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (1.739%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (16.52%) Visual Studio
2 14 (12.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (6.957%) Subversion
4 6 (5.217%) Visual Studio Team System
4 6 (5.217%) NUnit
5 3 (2.609%) CruiseControl
5 3 (2.609%) MSBuild
General
1 38 (33.04%) Finance
2 14 (12.17%) Retail
3 4 (3.478%) Aerospace
4 3 (2.609%) Marketing
5 1 (0.870%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 75 (65.22%) Developer
2 53 (46.09%) .NET Developer
3 44 (38.26%) C# Developer
4 42 (36.52%) C# .NET Developer
5 37 (32.17%) ASP.NET Developer
6 33 (28.70%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 26 (22.61%) SQL Developer
8 20 (17.39%) Software Engineer
9 10 (8.696%) Microsoft Developer
10 9 (7.826%) VB.NET Developer
11 8 (6.957%) Senior Developer
11 8 (6.957%) Administrator
11 8 (6.957%) Software Developer
12 7 (6.087%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.348%) Analyst
13 5 (4.348%) Server Administrator
13 5 (4.348%) Mid-Level C# Developer
13 5 (4.348%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 5 (4.348%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
14 4 (3.478%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.04%) Computer Science
2 27 (23.48%) Client/Server
3 23 (20.00%) N-Tier
4 4 (3.478%) W3C
4 4 (3.478%) Clustering
4 4 (3.478%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.609%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.870%) PaaS
6 1 (0.870%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (39.13%) Windows
2 6 (5.217%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (2.609%) UNIX
4 2 (1.739%) Linux
4 2 (1.739%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (53.04%) OO
2 39 (33.91%) CRM
2 39 (33.91%) OOA/OOD
3 38 (33.04%) MVC
4 17 (14.78%) UML
5 10 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (7.826%) ITIL
7 8 (6.957%) Content Management
7 8 (6.957%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (6.087%) Business Analysis
8 7 (6.087%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (5.217%) MSF
9 6 (5.217%) Unified Process
9 6 (5.217%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (5.217%) RUP
9 6 (5.217%) OOD
10 5 (4.348%) Configuration Management
10 5 (4.348%) Risk Management
10 5 (4.348%) E-Commerce
10 5 (4.348%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (76.52%) C#
2 79 (68.70%) SQL
3 77 (66.96%) JavaScript
4 44 (38.26%) VB.NET
5 25 (21.74%) XPath
6 11 (9.565%) VB
7 6 (5.217%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.348%) VBScript
9 4 (3.478%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.609%) Python
10 3 (2.609%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.739%) X++
12 1 (0.870%) VB6
12 1 (0.870%) C++
12 1 (0.870%) Java
12 1 (0.870%) C
Qualifications
1 95 (82.61%) MCTS
2 70 (60.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 50 (43.48%) Degree
4 34 (29.57%) MCP
5 19 (16.52%) MCSD
6 16 (13.91%) MCSE
7 11 (9.565%) MCITP
8 10 (8.696%) MCAD
8 10 (8.696%) SC Cleared
8 10 (8.696%) DV Cleared
8 10 (8.696%) Security Cleared
9 8 (6.957%) MCSA
10 2 (1.739%) CCNA
10 2 (1.739%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.826%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.739%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.478%) SCCM
2 2 (1.739%) SCOM
Vendors
1 65 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.30%) VMware
3 9 (7.826%) Oracle
4 7 (6.087%) Ektron
5 6 (5.217%) Sitecore
5 6 (5.217%) Cisco
5 6 (5.217%) HP
5 6 (5.217%) Dell
6 4 (3.478%) IBM
7 3 (2.609%) Adobe
8 2 (1.739%) Citrix
8 2 (1.739%) Avaya
8 2 (1.739%) Altiris
8 2 (1.739%) EPiServer
London
At least 3 years working with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 / 2010 - Web parts, work flows... *At least 4 years’ experience developing in .NET C#, ASP.NET . *Any certifications in...
Mortimer Bell International
Salary: From £85,000 to £100,000 per annum Excellent Benefits.
Posted: 18 May 2013
County Durham
Beneficial skills and experience: - Commercial experience with WCF, ASP.NET Web Forms, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, HTML5, CSS3, TFS, and Jira... - Industry recognised qualifications, such as Microsoft...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 14 May 2013
County Durham
Requirements analysis... Required skills and experience: - A degree in a relevant discipline - At least 3 years commercial development experience (at least 1-2 years specifically in .NET web...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
WCF,COM+, COM/DCOM, MSMQ , PAL experience. SharePoint experience... Windows Server, IIS and Active Directory experience... Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - BizTalk 2006 / 2009 (MCTS) Microsoft qualifications MCSE, MCTS...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £47000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Demonstrable talent coding in at least one major language (C#, Java, J2EE, C, C++) - Experience developing on Windows platform... - Extensive C#/.NET development experience - VB6/VB.NET - MCPD...
OpenBet Technology
Salary: Unspecified Competitive
Posted: 30 April 2013